Read about the creative artistic Futurism and you'll read the names of notorious dictators who twisted the ideals of speed and development associated with it to vindicate their irrational regimes against people and society. Yet this slideshare proposes a narrative showing that Futurism was simply a crystallisation of many influences and also makes many hallmarks today.

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1900 1920 1940
Art Nouveau
FUTURISM
Dada
Art Deco
Constructivism
Bauhaus
Surrealism
CUBISM
ARTDESIGNMOVEMENTSDEVELOPMENTS,
EVENTS&INVENTIONS
France c.1908
Italy c.1909
Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque
Felippo Tommaso Marinetti
1895
X-Ray
1899
1st wireless
message sent
1901 Nobel Prize
in Physics
1902 Racing Cars
reach 100km/hr
1905 Voisin Brothers
build aircraft in Paris
1909 1st person
crosses English Channel
in aeroplane
1911 Italy goes
to war with Turkey
1911 Revolution
in China
1913 35mm
Camera invented
1914 WW1 starts
EVOLUTION OF FUTURISM

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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Germany
Munich University
b. 1845, d. 1923

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Representations of:
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Impressionism
CHARACTERISTICS:
Woman with a Parasol, Claude Monet, 1875
• visible brushstrokes
• light colors
• open composition
• emphasis on light in
its changing qualities
(often accentuating the effects
of the passage of time)
• ordinary subject matter,
and unusual visual angles
Impressionism

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Post Impressionism
An extension of Impressionism
exploiting the true lack of form
consisting of more experimental
techniques including:
• pointillism
• divisionism
The Gardener Vallier, Paul Cezanne 1906

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Post Impressionism - Pointillism technique
Techniques uses dots
instead of broad strokes
Georges Seurat,
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, A, 1884-86
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The individual dots
of red, yellow and blue
are sucked in through
your eyes and mixed-up
in your head to create
a variety of shimmering
shades
A pointillistic study
of colour

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CUBISM
A style which restructured
observable real world objects
by their Planal Form:
• simplification
• distortion
• emphasis
• Basic geometric shapes
• A new manner of representation
Breakfast, Juan Gris, 1915
Said to be a reaction against the set
formlessness of Impressionism
INFLUENCES: said to have
been Tribal Art in which find many
themes adapted from African art

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1895
X-Ray
1899
1st wireless
message sent
1901 Nobel Prize
in Physics
1902 Racing Cars
reach 100km/hr
1905 Voisin Brothers
build aircraft in Paris
1909 1st person
crosses English Channel
in aeroplane
1911 Italy goes
to war with Turkey
1911 Revolution
in China
1913 35mm
Camera invented
1914 WW1 starts
FUTURISM

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A Manifesto was published
(in French newspaper Le Figaro on 20 Feb 1919
onto the mass public)
Fosused on: (dynamic, energetic and violent character of changing 20th Century
life, especially city life)
Glorified the machine and the modern age and the city
Highly influential on other art movements and artists
Main artists: Boccioni, Cara, Balla and Severini
FUTURISM - THE FACTS
Literary and poetic in origin but then extended:
(including poetry, literature, painting, graphics, typography, sculpture, product design,
architecture, photography, cinema and performing arts)

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FUTURISM - THE STYLE
Forces of a Street, Umberto Boccioni, 1911
Complementary contrasts:
• red / blue
• green / orange
• violet / yellow
The pre-
requisites
for modern
painting
Movement was referred to by
light and destroyed solid bodies
leading to a representative style
Optical appearances
Scientific insights
Essence of motion / music

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A lack of concern for aesthetic innovation
Manifestos (visions of the new industrialised world)
Glorification of technology (speed, vital life)
Encouraging interaction and for people to take part in art, poetry, theatre
A brand new anarchy
FUTURISM - THEY SPOKE OF…
Beasts within the city
(roaring motorcar/polluting factories)
Rejecting the static qualities of Cubism

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FUTURISM
SUPERMENAnd not helpless victims of social inequality

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FUTURISM - POSSIBILITIES
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) by Maggi Hambling (b.1945)
What is special about:
- Colour
- Painting technique
- Subject matter

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FUTURISM - POSSIBILITIES
Brahma
Hindu trinity of:
• Brahma - the creator
• Vishnu - the preserver
• Shiva - the destroyer
What do you notice?
The daily alternation of
light and dark is attributed
to the activity of Brahma

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FUTURISM - POSSIBILITIES
Evening dress, Blancquaert, c.1927
By the 1920s, hemlines had
shortened to just below the knee
It is embroidered with tassels of
beads and sequins that would have
danced and swirled with her
every movement
What would the dress capture?

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FUTURISM - POSSIBILITIES
Kaleidoscope, invented by Sir David Brewster, 1816
Named after the Greek words:
• Kalos (beautiful)
• Eidos (form)
• Scopos (Watcher)
BEAUTIFUL
FORM
WATCHER